Monthly Archives: July 2024

Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users

Twilio says “threat actors were able to identify” phone numbers of people who use the two-factor app Authy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn

Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.

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How Tom Hanks’s Son Spawned a Hateful Meme Online

When Chet Hanks first used the phrase “white boy summer,” it seemed to be done ironically. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white supremacists and other hate groups.

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Millions of Apple Applications Were Vulnerable to CocoaPods Supply Chain Attack

The vulnerabilities have since been patched, but had quietly persisted since the CocoaPods migration in 2014.

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Music video-sharing app Popster uses generative AI and lets artists remix videos

As more music streaming apps and creation tools emerge to compete for users’ attention, social music-sharing app Popster is getting two new features to grow its user base: an AI image generator for cover art and a collaboration capability where … Continue reading

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Threads nears its one-year anniversary with more than 175M monthly active users

Meta’s Threads now has more than 175 million monthly active users, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes two days away from Threads’ first anniversary. Zuckerberg revealed back in April that Threads had more than 150 million monthly active … Continue reading

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LG acquires smart home platform Athom to bring third-party connectivity to its ThinQ ecosytem

LG has acquired an 80% stake in Athom, a Dutch smart home company and maker of the Homey smart home hub. According to LG’s announcement, it will purchase the remaining 20% of Athom within the next three years. However, the … Continue reading

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Fisker asks bankruptcy court to sell its EVs at average of $14,000 each

Fisker has a willing buyer for its remaining inventory of all-electric Ocean SUVs, and has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing its Chapter 11 case to approve the sale. If approved by the judge, Fisker would be able to … Continue reading

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Genshin Impact 4.8: How to watch the live stream and what we can expect to see

It’s a hugely busy week for HoYoverse as not only does it have the launch of Zenless Zone Zero, but we are also getting the live stream that will tell us all we need to know about the latest version … Continue reading

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Inside a16z’s Boot Camp for Crypto Startups

Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of founders that it hopes can prove the technology is good for more than scams and speculation.

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